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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Eli Reed is an American photographer (Magnum Photohrapher Agency)

Eli
Reed
was born in the US and studied pictorial illustration at the Newark
School of Fine and Industrial Arts, graduating in 1969. In 1982 he
was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. At Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government, he studied political science, urban affairs,
and the prospects for peace in Central America.

Reed
began photographing as a freelancer in 1970. His work from El
Salvador, Guatemala and other Central American countries attracted
the attention of Magnum in 1982. He was nominated to the agency the
following summer, and became a full member in 1988.

In
the same year Reed photographed the effects of poverty on America's
children for a film documentary called Poorest in the Land of Plenty,
narrated by Maya Angelou. He went on to work as a stills and specials
photographer for major motion pictures. His video documentary Getting
Out was shown at the New York Film Festival in 1993 and honored by
the 1996 Black Film-makers Hall of Fame International Film and Video
Competition in the documentary category.

Reed's
special reports include a long-term study on Beirut (1983-87), which
became his first, highly acclaimed book Beirut, City of Regrets, the
ousting of Baby Doc Duvalier in Haiti (1986), US military action in
Panama (1989), the Walled City in Hong Kong and, perhaps most
notably, his documentation of African-American experience over more
than twenty years. Spanning the 1970s through the end of the 1990s,
his book Black in America includes images from the Crown Heights
riots and the Million Man March.

Reed
has lectured and taught at the International Center of Photography,
Columbia University, New York University, and Harvard University. He
currently works as Clinical Professor of Photojournalism at the
University of Texas in Austin.